Living on a farm is all about seasons especially when you want to make the most of the fertile soils of the North West Coast of Tasmania. This blog is a diary of growing, harvesting and preserving the produce of those soils just as I have been doing for the past 30 years. Come with me on my journey through the seasons. Maybe you will be inspired to grow and preserve your own too.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Last week, after watching a first episode in the new series
of Gourmet Farmer on SBS, I was inspired
to start using some of the frozen Morello cherries that I picked in January.
Matthew Evans met up with a friend ,originally from Croatia, who showed him how
to make a sour cherry strudel. Seemed a simple recipe other than having to deal
with fiddly filo pastry so I gave it a go on the weekend. The filo was fiddly
as predicted but who cares when the result tastes so good. Sour cherry would
have to be one of my most favourite flavours! Yummmmm! I can see this recipe becoming an all time favourite.

I was busy bottling tomato paste and drying tomatoes on the weekend but one new thing that I tried was making peach leather. The peaches are rapidly ripening on the tree so I am going to have to come up with some uses for them. This peach and passionfruit leather looks and tastes nice.

I also made a peach and walnut cake for my book club last night.....looks nice and tastes that way as well. There seem to be millions of peach cake recipes on the net so just picking one was difficult. This one came from a site called Foodnetwork.

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I live on a dairy farm in Flowerdale on the North West coast of Tasmania where I have a large vegetable and fruit garden. For many years I have been harvesting and preserving the produce of my garden to enjoy all year round. I'm always looking for new ideas from around the world to experiment with, as well as the tried and true standards.